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I say general terms because obviously we all have our unique backgrounds and experiences that are more personal to us - e.g., as a person of colour who knows what racial bias feels like, much more-so than a white person, however old; a person with an invisible condition like misophonia who has to self-advocate just to get anything close to a loosely-corresponding diagnosis and some sort of treatment; a 17-year-old orphan-girl who’s experienced more grief than some people will in a lifetime. Anything. Anything that you’re naturally going to be far more experienced in than the average person (whether it’s by route of self-advocacy or just direct experience, just ones that are more personal/possibly niche). But at what point do you consider someone generally experienced in general life terms (working, paying bills/a mortgage, raising kids, etc., etc.) that do tend to increase in amount with age, no matter how intellectually seasoned you are from jump/perceiving the timeless intuitive undercurrents of life from a young age?

I say all I say in low-key waffle up there to account for intellectual nuance and draw the line between personal, unique experience (e.g., racial bias, cultural/ethnic background, niche medical conditions) and broader, archetypal life-experience (work, parenting, paying taxes, ageing, etc.). So, whether you’re an intuitive INFJ with the reading-capacity of people twice your age and more insight into the metaphysical undercurrents of life to boot but very little in the way of “I’m paying £80 more in taxes this year while I juggle looking after my poor 1-year-old” (who’s probably just adorable) or someone who’s coasted through life not particularly intelligent or “deep” but has walked the circle of broad experience with bills, kids and beef with HR a trillion times, this thread is calling both types of people, and everyone in-between. Both types of experience are incredibly valuable but not interchangeable.